Disney's live-action adaptation of Lilo & Stitch blends a familiar story with brand-new elements, and that concept applies to the cast as well.

The North Carolina native wasn’t at all familiar with the 2002 animated Disney movie about the Hawaiian girl and her pet-alien when he signed on for a role in the remake two years ago.

This week on ‘At The Box Office’, film critic Julia Swift reviewed the new live-action “Lilo & Stitch”, a remake of the 2002 animated film. Swift has admittingly never seen the full film, so she went in “with completely fresh eyes.

Zach Galifianakis tells PEOPLE at the premiere of Disney's live-action 'Lilo & Stitch' movie that while his two young sons know he is an actor, he does not plan to bring them around the Hollywood spotlight anytime soon.

Disney's live-action "Lilo & Stitch" premieres in theaters this Friday. But there's been another roller coaster ride of controversy surrounding the actress who plays Nani, Lilo's older sister. HPR's Cassie Ordonio reports.

We sit with some of the local boys on the crew of Disney’s newest action film, screenwriter Chris Bright and actor Kaipo Dudoit, as Lilo & Stitch hits theaters this

You can’t have Stitch without Lilo ... but much like the rest of the movie, the actor has a more human approach than Ving Rhames’ cartoony origins as the undercover CIA agent.

Dudoit began acting when he was in college, securing roles on stage for a wide range of characters with Kumu Kahua Theatre. The community theater is known for “Plays about life in Hawaiʻi… by Hawaiʻi playwrights… for the people of Hawaiʻi.”

The roughhouse charmer “Lilo & Stitch” from 2002, one of Disney’s more freewheeling animated 21st century mashups of slapstick and heartstring-plucking, has already spun off TV and sequel ...